PROHIBITION OF AND PUNISHMENT FOR RAGGING

1. Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited, within the premises of the institution and any part of Local Area as well as on public transport.

2. Any individual or collective act or practice or ragging constitutes gross indiscipline and shall be dealt as per ordinance for the purpose. Ragging for the purpose of this ordinance ordinarily means any act, conduct or practice by which dominant power or status of senior students is brought to bear on students freshly enrolled or students who are in way considered junior or inferior by other students and includes individual or collective acts or practices which:

(a) Involve physical assault or threat, or use of physical force.

(b) Violate the status, dignity and honor of woman students.

(c) Violate the status, dignity and honor of students belonging to the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes.

(d) Expose students to ridicule on contempt and affect their self-esteem.

This is to bring to your notice that the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and Government
of India have totally banned ragging in the educational institutions. Serious action will
be taken against students found indulging in any act of ragging, as per the orders of the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

The recommendation of the committee constituted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court has been adopted by
the University Grant Commission in the Expert Committee meeting held on 15th February, 2009 and has
been duly notified in the form of UGC Regulations on Curbing the menace of Ragging in